Letter: Disputes Compass 'Best of 2010' report

William Jones

Thursday

Dec 30, 2010 at 12:05 AM

Editor: After reading the Dec. 24 Compass I am puzzled by the inclusion of both Cafe 11 and the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall in your story regarding the Best of 2010. Cafe 11 floundered to a point of extinction under the guys of the new ownership. The business actually closed for several weeks. How can a business that failed be rated as best of anything? On a side note everyone I know at the beach is thrilled about the return of the "old" Cafe Eleven now being reopened by its original owner Ryan Detra.

The Ponte Vedra Concert Hall has the potential to be the Best of 2011, but was named as best of 2010 by your paper without hosting a single event.

We applaud your selection of the Amphitheater but wonder why the Compass would ignore events like the Beach Blast Off and the Music by the Sea Concert Series in favor of a business that flopped and a venue that wasn't open for business?

As a reader I am puzzled. As a resident of the beach I can't help but wonder if the size of advertising budgets or other factors are in play? It's just disappointing to look for logic, reason and facts that make sense in a news piece only to find a headline that says one thing and a story that says another.

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